Why do we let Auba take the penalties? He misses loads of them.

[WES]

I'd rather have a more attacking MF next to Partey. He seems best like that - he can do the destructive work of a DM but can then push forward and create, a bit like PV4 back in the day.

I'd love Saliba to come and make good - selling that Bubble looks a bad movement at the mo - but why break the Gab-Ben partnership that seems to be starting to gel?

With Saliba, it becomes like every year we won a league during my lifetime, when we had 3 top drawer CHs of which we played two so we never had to worry. TA, Bould, O'Leary to Kolo, Keown and Sol.

If TA hadn't been banged up and we had the big subs bench we have now, we wouldn't have had to bring on David Hillier when Bouldy went off injured vs the Chavs in '90-1, and GG {him, not me} would have been Invincible before AW.

I liked AMN in there on Sunday, was impressed. I nice little chipped ball into the box early doors for someone to run on to was the sort of thing we don't see enough of when Sambi and Partey play there.

Not sure how Smudger rated him over White for MOTM but he certainly looked good. Midfield is looking better this season - hoping Arteta will realise Xhaka's limitations (like getting red cards!) and not stick him right back in the first 11. I'd prefer AMN or Sambi get a good long run there

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

I liked AMN in there on Sunday, was impressed. I nice little chipped ball into the box early doors for someone to run on to was the sort of thing we don't see enough of when Sambi and Partey play there.

Not sure how Smudger rated him over White for MOTM but he certainly looked good. Midfield is looking better this season - hoping Arteta will realise Xhaka's limitations (like getting red cards!) and not stick him right back in the first 11. I'd prefer AMN or Sambi get a good long run there

Couldn't agree more, Wes. You know me, ideally I'd want a midget no.10. But I'm in a much better mood having seen how Sambi and AMN play there than I was with GX in the starting XI.

White didn't have all that much to do, though did it all well. AMN worked for the full 90, doing a bit of everything.

Was it like PV4 or Cesc at their peaks? No. But had we just spent £23m on AMNinho, and that was his debut, all the fans would have been raving we'd got a bargain.